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Ideas are powerful...

Ideas are powerful...

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action....

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She was a...

She was a...

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

Source: On Margaret Mead, 1984.
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Cancer patients are...

Cancer patients are...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is...

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Pleasure was not...

Pleasure was not...

Pleasure was not the principle of our home. I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before...

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No author dislikes...

No author dislikes...

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

Source:...

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The dark-veiled silhouette...

The dark-veiled silhouette...

The dark-veiled silhouette . . . that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demented...

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Illusion is the...

Illusion is the...

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

Source: In The...

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That is what...

That is what...

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new...

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Authors and actors...

Authors and actors...

Authors and actors and artists and such
Never know nothing, and never know much.


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My father always...

My father always...

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every...

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Niccolo Machiavelli: One change leaves...

Niccolo Machiavelli: One change leaves...

One change leaves the way open for the introduction of others.

Source: In The...

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Benjamin Whichcote: The more mysterious,...

Benjamin Whichcote: The more mysterious,...

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half...

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Aldous Huxley: The secret of...

Aldous Huxley: The secret of...

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

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George Eliot: Iteration, like friction,...

George Eliot: Iteration, like friction,...

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Source:...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Many a man...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Many a man...

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

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Arthur Schomburg: The earliest instruction...

Arthur Schomburg: The earliest instruction...

The earliest instruction was imparted orally, a system still extant in Africa and the Orient. lt trains the mind to...

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: When a man...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: When a man...

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he...

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Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other...

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Horatio Nelson: I have always...

Horatio Nelson: I have always...

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.

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